DESPITE pleas from human-rights activists across the political spectrum, President Clinton has decided to send a high-profile delegation, under the honorary chairmanship of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and including at least two members of his Cabinet, to the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women next month in Peking.
China remains a totalitarian police state that systematically violates every civil liberty. It holds thousands of political prisoners including, as we write, Harry Wu, a veteran of the Chinese gulag who, after becoming an American citizen, returned to China to further document the Chinese government’s use of slave labor.
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